Keynote Speech

Keynote speeches and presentations on the key issues of today’s architecture delivered by internationally renowned architects and global leaders

Date: September 4 - 7, 2017
Venue: Hall D, 3F, COEX

September 4 (Mon)

September 5 (Tue)

September 6(Wed)

September 7(Thu)

PARK, Wonsoon
10:15 - 10:45

LEATHERBARROW, David
9:00 - 10:00

ABOU, Moussa9:00 - 10:00

ITO, Toyo
9:00 - 10:00

TSIEN, Billie & WILLIAMS , Tod
14:00 - 15:00

PERRAULT, Dominique
13:00 - 14:00

SCHUMACHER, Patrik (Open to Public)
18:00 – 19:00

CHO, Minsuk (Open to Public)
18:00 – 19:00

WATTANAVRANGKUL, Kobkarn13:00 - 14:00

Invited Speakers

PARK, Wonsoon

Education

1974: Graduated from Gyunggi High School
1985: Received a bachelor’s degree in history from Dankook University
1991～1992: Earned an International Law diploma from LSE(The London School of Economics and Political Sciences)

Work Experiences

1980: Passed the 22nd bar exam
1982: Served as a prosecuting attorney for the Daegu District Prosecution office Court
1993: Worked as a visiting fellow at the Law School of Harvard University in the USA
1995～2002: Served as a secretary General for the People’s Solidarity for a Participatory Democracy
2002～2009: Served as the Executive Director of the Beautiful Store
2001～2010: Served as the Executive Director of the Beautiful Foundation
2006～2011: Served as the Executive Director of Hope Institute.
2011～ (Re-)Elected as Mayor of Seoul

2006: Received the Manhae Award
2006: Received the Philippines Magsaysay Award in the category of public service
2007: Received the Danjaesang Award
2009: Received an award at the 15th Buddhism Human Rights Awards
2016: Received the Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development

PARK, Wonsoon

The Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government

“SEOUL, A SHARING CITY – PURSUING DEMOCRACY IN PUBLIC SPACED THROUGHOUT THE CITY”

Sep.4(Mon) 10:15-10:45

“SEOUL, A SHARING CITY – PURSUING DEMOCRACY IN PUBLIC SPACED THROUGHOUT THE CITY”

UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress
Mayor of Seoul’s Welcome Remarks and Keynote Speech
Seoul, A Sharing City – Pursuing Democracy In Public Spaces Throughout The City

First of all, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of the representatives of the 124 member countries of the UIA and all of the participants of the UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress. It is truly an honor for Seoul to host this meaningful congress, and it is a special privilege for me to deliver the first keynote speech.

The overall theme of this year’s congress is the Soul of the City, and over the next three days, lectures will be held on three sub-themes: Culture, Nature, and Future.

I believe that the City of Seoul is the best city to show you the soul of the city. Seoul and soul sound so similar!

The City of Seoul is a city with soul. But where does this soul come from? I always say that the soul of Seoul is its three landmarks. First, its rich history and culture, which can be traced back to more than 600 years. Second, its beautiful natural environment, which boasts magnificent rivers and mountains. And third, its 10 million citizens, who are very smart and multi-talented. These three elements are the real soul within the dynamic Seoul.

Seoul is currently undergoing a period of reflection and transition. The past industrialization period was all about demolition and reconstruction and redevelopment. Nowadays, however, the focus has shifted to history and culture and nature and, most importantly, people. Seoul is striving to become a more people-oriented city.

A good example is the Seoullo, which used to be an overpass but was converted into a pedestrian walkway and was officially opened to the public last May. This project shows Seoul’s commitment to move from a car-centered city and to a more pedestrian-centered city. The Sewoon Shopping Mall, a mega-structure built in 1970, will also be transformed soon.

Also, the Mapo Oil Reserve Base, which was created in the 1970s, will be renewed and reopened as the Culture Reserve Base, a hub for culture, history, nature, and leisure. From September 1, 2017, the Seoul Architecture Festival 2017 will be held at the Culture Reserve Base, and exhibitions of the winners of the Seoul Architecture Award and the This Year’s Architect Award will be held as well, so please spare some time to visit.

The Donuimun Museum Village, where the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 will be held, is another example of Seoul’s efforts, so please visit and experience.

Cities are great platforms for sharing. Public spaces throughout cities should, first and foremost, serve public interests. Unfortunately, however, this “publicness” has been greatly undermined over the years due to rapid industrialization. And this has a correlation with the loss of a sense of community and humanity.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government is carrying out several public architecture projects to restore the “publicness” of public spaces in the city. In other words, we are pursuing democracy in public spaces. For example, we are renovating community service centers, neighborhood libraries, and daycare centers, which can be of direct help to the livelihood of the citizens.

The people that are playing key roles in these projects are the Seoul Architects and the City Architect of Seoul. We have appointed 150 Seoul Architects, and their responsibilities include giving advice on various projects, from small architectural structures to large infrastructure. The goal is to highlight the social responsibility of architects and to involve them in the process of resolving urban challenges. I am very thankful for our Seoul Architects and the City Architect of Seoul.

I am certain that all of the participating architects here today are also playing similar significant roles in their own countries, to which I express my deep respect.

Another social responsibility that architects have is to help strengthen the citizens’ sense of ownership and rights over public spaces throughout the city. I hope that this congress can serve as a platform on which architects can engage in communication with the citizens and help strengthen their sense of ownership and rights over public spaces.

I also hope that many issues related to urban architecture can be discussed and effective solutions can be found as well so that we can resolve the common urban challenges that cities around the world face together and set forth the future direction in which cities should take.

Thank you very much.

TSIEN, Billie & WILLIAMS , Tod

Tod Williams was born in Detroit, MI and received his undergraduate, MFA, and Architecture degrees from Princeton University.
Billie Tsien was born in Ithaca, NY and received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and her Master of Architecture degree from UCLA.
They have worked together since 1977 and founded their architectural practice in 1986.
Located in New York, their studio focuses on work for institutions including schools, museums, and not-for-profits—organizations and people who value issues of aspiration and meaning, timelessness and beauty. Over the past three decades they have received more than two dozen awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as numerous national and international citations. Outside the studio, Tod and Billie are devoted participants in the cultural community and have long-standing associations with many arts organizations. They maintain active academic careers and lecture worldwide. As both educators and practitioners, they are deeply committed to making a better world through architecture.

TSIEN, Billie & WILLIAMS , Tod

Architect, TWBTA

“THREE”

Sep.4(Mon) 14:00-15:00

“THREE”

We will explore three cities through the lens of several projects completed between 2001 and 2015. Starting in New York, where we have lived and practiced for over forty years, we will share our insight for the American Folk Art Museum, located in midtown Manhattan, as well as the LeFrak Center for recreation in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. In Philadelphia, we designed the Barnes Foundation, the first building completed along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway since 1959. Further away in Hong Kong, we completed the Asia Society on a uniquely verdant and historic site in Admiralty. Each location offered a particular character, context and challenge that required a specific response - we always want our buildings to be good neighbors.

SCHUMACHER, Patrik

Patrik Schumacher (b. 1961, Bonn, Germany) is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and has led the practice since Zaha Hadid’s passing. Patrik joined ZHA in 1988. He was the lead architect of ZHA’s first completed project - the Vitra Fire Station (completed 1993) - and together with Hadid, has co-authored almost all the firm’s built works to date. He is registered with the Architect’s Registration Board and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Patrik studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Southbank University in London. He completed his architectural diploma and received his degree from Stuttgart University in 1990 and also studied philosophy at both Bonn and London Universities. In 1999 he received his doctoral degree Dr.Phil. from the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt.
Since 1992, Patrik has been teaching at architectural schools in Britain, continental Europe and the USA. He co-taught a series of post-graduate studios with Zaha Hadid at the University of Illinois, Yale and Columbia, in addition to having been tenured Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck University. In 1996 Patrik founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association where he continues to teach as co-director. He is lecturing worldwide and recently held the John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
In 2008 Patrik coined the phrase Parametricism and his contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is evident in his published works. In 2010 and 2012 he published the two volumes ‘The Autopoiesis of Architecture’ and recently guest-edited Architecture Digest (AD) “Parametricism 2.0 – setting architecture’s agenda for the 21st Century” with a new emphasis on its societal relevance.

* Open to public

SCHUMACHER, Patrik

Principal at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)

"THE LEGACY OF ZAHA HADID - RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE
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Sep.4(Mon) 18:00-19:00

"THE LEGACY OF ZAHA HADID - RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE"

The lecture will trace the career of Zaha Hadid all the way from her student days at the AA in the 1970s. The focus will be on the path-breaking innovations and new design freedoms that Zaha Hadid gifted to the discipline and how these innovations were translated into the built works of Zaha Hadid Architects. The role of academic research as a factor in the continuous evolution of Zaha Hadid Architects will be highlighted and the current research agendas will be introduced and explained. The lecture will cover projects from 30 years of work, across many design disciplines and scales from product design to urban design and across many programme types, regions and cultures. The lecture will also locate the oeuvre of Zaha Hadid and Zaha Hadid Architects within the history of 20th and 21st century architecture and outline an agenda for the discipline’s further progress.

LEATHERBARROW, David

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chairman of the Graduate Group in Architecture (Ph.D. Program)
at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught architectural design, history, and theory since 1984.
Before going to Penn he taught in England, at Cambridge University and the Polytechnic of Central London.
He has also visited and taught at many universities in the USA and abroad.
David Leatherbarrow studied architecture at the University of Kentucky, where he earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree (1976), and he completed research for his Ph.D. in Art at the University of Essex (1983), under Joseph Rykwert’s supervision.
In his scholarly work he has published a number of books, most recently The Project(s) of Modern Architecture (2017), Architecture Oriented Otherwise (2009), Topographical Stories: studies in landscape and architecture (2004), and Surface Architecture (2002), a book written in collaboration with Mohsen Mostafavi that won the Bruno Zevi Prize from the International Congress of Architecture Critics. Forthcoming is a book titled Three Cultural Ecologies (2017), co-authored with Richard Wesley.
Earlier books include Uncommon Ground: architecture, technology and topography, The Roots of Architectural Invention: site, enclosure and materials, and On Weathering: the life of buildings in time, again with Mostafavi, which won the 1995 International Book Award in architectural theory from the American Institute of Architects.
In addition to the books he has published scholarly articles in architectural journals, including AA Files, Architectural Design, Center, Daidalos, Journal of Garden History,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Rassegna, Via, and others. His awards include a Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture and two Fulbright Hays Scholarships, one for study in Great Britain another for research and lecturing in Israel. He has held Guest Professorships in Europe, South America, and Asia.
In the past, his research has focused on various topics in the history and theory of architecture, gardens, and urbanism; more recently his work has concentrated on the impact of contemporary technology on architecture and the city.

LEATHERBARROW, David

Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

“WHOLE PARTS”

Sep.5(Tue) 9:00-10:00

“WHOLE PARTS”

In an attempt to define a place for architectural order other than comprehensive urban systems or market-driven aesthetics, this talk will advance a thesis concerning whole parts, which is to say internally defined architectural works whose intensity and coherence do not isolate them from the city’s wider frames of reference, artificial and natural. Despite decades of alternately progressive and reactionary claims about dramatic crises in contemporary urban culture, most cities and good urban architecture show a remarkable degree of continuity, no matter whether you consider Shangahi, Stockholm, or Santiago—at least parts of them. Sizes have, indeed, changed. Buildings are taller, infrastructure bigger, and open spaces wider and more heterogeneous—to say nothing about the ever-increasing density and expanse of urban settlements. Yet, in every city’s different localities intelligible topography is still very much in evidence, not despite radical changes (which would argue for repetition of pre-modern scale and typologies), nor thanks to them (in the form of big architecture, megastructures, or large scale engineering and landscape projects), but because coherent architectural works can contribute to both the transformation and continuity of cities. Scale is at issue here, also proportioning, but equally so the productive nature of intelligent and creative architectural projects. Three scales or types will be addressed: tall buildings, open spaces, and infrastructure, in consideration of 20th century works in the city of Philadelphia.

David Leatherbarrow

PERRAULT, Dominique

Dominique Perrault has made his own path in contemporary architecture, gaining in notoriety over the years both in and outside of his native France. Born in 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, he studied in Paris and received his diploma as an architect from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1978. He received a further degree in Urbanism at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1979, as well as a Master’s in History at the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in 1980. He created his own firm in 1981 in Paris. Though he completed works before that date, Perrault’s career took a sudden upswing when an international jury selected him to design the French National Library in Paris in 1989. The
last of President François Mitterrand’s Grands Travaux, a series of cultural projects that included the Louvre Pyramid by I.M. Pei, the Library is made up of four 79-meter high towers, imagined like open books around a sunken central courtyard. This project underlines a number of characteristics of Perrault’s other work, in particular the use of “chain mail” cladding for surfaces, replacing the more usual smooth, modern appearance. The central garden merits attention. “The modern movement always had a very Puritan relationship with the earth,” says Dominique Perrault. “When Le Corbusier imagined setting buildings up on pilotis so that they would not touch the earth, his attitude was very peculiar. In my project, the idea of the natural level of the earth disappears, and the building blends with nature. In Paris, one has the impression that the garden of the Library is at the level of the Seine, but in fact, it is ten meters lower. One almost feels that the garden was there before the building and that the Library somehow protects it. This relationship with the earth is complex, and it contradicts the usual Modernist tenets.” When pressed on this point, Perrault goes on to explain “The garden is not only beautiful, it is sacred. Visitors cannot enter it. It is the symbolic place of origin of the Library, it brings calm and light to the interior. It is in some sense the first garden.1” Twenty years after its inauguration in 1995, the French National Library remains one of the most significant contemporary public buildings in France.
Perrault went on to dig into the earth in such seminal projects as the Velodrome and Olympic Swimming Pool (Berlin, Germany, 1992–99), or more recently the Ewha Womans University in Seoul (South Korea, 2004–08). The Ewha project appears like a slash in the earth, leading users down to the facilities. This kind of typological and stylistic inversion is indicative of the profound nature of Dominique Perrrault’s contribution to contemporary architecture. With the 2015 Praemium Imperiale award to Dominique Perrault, notice is duly taken on the international scale of the significance of his work.
With projects such as the reconstruction and expansion of the Court of Justice of the European
Union (Luxembourg, 2008/ ongoing), the repurposing of the former Poste du Louvre (Paris, 2018) or the 250-meter DC Tower (Vienna, 2014), Dominique Perrault has engaged in different types of work, often on a large scale and with considerable technical challenges that he always meets with an inventive spirit. His innovation is first theoretical but then also esthetic. Although his work is identifiably contemporary it is also permeated with unexpected materials and surfaces. Dominique Perrault has actively sought to make his approach to architectural innovation known through an initiative he calls DPAx, a research platform “that calls for a multidisciplinary dialogue to explore architecture from a wider perspective.”
Through his built work, his projects and his thought, Dominique Perrault has created a unique place for himself in the world of contemporary architecture. He is young by the standards of the highest level of his profession and it is clear that Dominique Perrault will more and more be considered one of the outstanding figures of his generation.

Philip Jodidio
September 1, 2015

PERRAULT, Dominique

Architect DPLG, Urbanist, Founder of DPA Studio, Member of French Academy of Fine Art,
Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse (EPFL),
Founder of the Underground Architecture Laboratory (SUBLAB at EPFL)

“BELOW”

Sep.5(Tue) 13:00-14:00

“BELOW”

In this book, the architect Dominique Perrault presents his thoughts on the architecture of the "Groundscape". An idea, a concept, the architect has been exploring and experimenting with for many years in his projects and through his fictions. It is a work on shaping reality, through subterranean architecture, where is not a question of living but of marking and carving out places for urban life in the earth, this epidermis open to the sky.

"Groundscape", a generic concept

Over the course of a number of international competitions and successive projects built regularly punctuating the architect’s chronology since the 1980s, from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to the the Ewha university, the notion of "Groundscape" as a generic concept became increasingly obvious for the architect, who has come to see it as an authentic extension of the field of architectural practice and even more so as a genuine program. An object of his research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the "Groundscape" is a landscape of another nature, a place and a resource that extends and enlarges our world.

An engaged architect, an engaged style

In Groundscapes - Other Topographies, Dominique Perrault takes a firm position. He expresses in writing his commitment to this position, presented in the form of a dialog and exchanges of ideas, which are accompanied by a rich and erudite iconography readers will discover throughout the book. The fruit of a series of interviews with Frédéric Migayrou, in this book he explores a range of questions raised by the "Groundscape" (from fiction as method for creation to issues of ecology, engineering, urban planning and geography) and suggests possible ways of tackling them. Thus the architect traces the contours of a new form of urban living; a universe of possibilities, of highly innovative places that either exist, are waiting to be created, or still to be imagined.

Fiction or experimenting with possibilities

Dominique Perrault imagines and conceives fictions, his "Groundscapes", possible futures for architecture, one of which opens each chapter of the book and proposes a different reality for the built environment. He seeks to reveal the available resources we fail to take into account in our urban reality in order to extend the field of architectural intervention. Most of these fictions have been developed for Paris, the city where the architect lives and the cityscape of his imaginary world. The fiction for the Arc de Triomphe set upon a plaza of glass makes it possible to extend the monument, unveil new spaces, and improve the usability of what already exists. In his fiction for the Avenue Foch, he explores the notion of context in an ensemble that is being transformed, the one of the landscape, or entire territories. Facing the economic, social and cultural mutations underway, this is a political, ethical and ecological reflection the architect wishes to share with us.

CHO, Minsuk

Minsuk Cho is an architect and founder of Seoul-based firm Mass Studies.
Cho graduated from Yonsei University and Columbia University, and spent his early career in New York and Rotterdam, and in 1998, co-founded Cho Slade Architecture in New York.

Since returning to Seoul in 2003, he has been committed to the discourse of architecture through socio-cultural and urban research and mostly built works, which have been recognized globally, with representative works including the Pixel House, Missing Matrix, Bundle Matrix: S-Trenue, Ann Demeulemeester Shop, Korea Pavilion: 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and Daum Space.1, Osulloc: Tea Stone/Innisfree, Southcape: Clubhouse, and Dome-ino.

Active beyond his practice, he has co-curated the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, and was the commissioner and co-curator of the Korean Pavilion for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, which was awarded the Gold Lion for Best National Participation.

* Open to public

CHO, Minsuk

Architect, MASS STUDIES (Open to public)

“BEFORE/AFTER”

Sep.5(Tue) 18:00-19:00

BEFORE/AFTER

Mass Studies has operated as an architectural practice for over a decade in Seoul, responding to a series of distinct geographic, social, and political conditions in constant flux. Consequently, each project has developed from ideas extracted from its own highly specific conditions, each with multiple variables of scale, speed, and economy - small to large, slow to fast, and cheap to expensive - seemingly absent of apparent order. In response to the fluctuating complexity of urban development, and grounded in an obsessive curiosity of the reality in which it operates, Mass Studies has pursued a methodology of “systematic heterogeneity” that simultaneously embraces the general, the obscure, and the unseen as opportunities.
The built and un-built projects of Mass Studies are an on-going cartographic record of ideas over time. Individual projects are less isolated events and more an interconnected assemblage of multiple ideas. With a disciplined method for each architectural pursuit, they include specific combinations of typological, formal, temporal, social, relational, behavioral, and experiential ideas that allow the process of design to take place within dynamic, yet defined, parameters.﻿
To stay abreast of such fluid conditions, the architect must constantly strategize and be responsive to changing contexts. Like the game of Go, each move is both offense and defense, creating a constellation of reactions in an evolutionary process. This requires one to be aware of and utilize everything that came before while projecting what might happen after. Our projects are not concerned with the a priori narrative of an architectural beginning and the physical end of the work. They are rather the conception-to-realization of a building as the in-between performance of a larger recursive process.

ABOU, Moussa

Researcher in Architecture of Earth (ground) and local Materials-Inventor

- Architect by training and holder of a basic school-leaving qualification Deepened (Fathomed) in earth (ground) obtained on May 11th 1990 at School of Architecture of Grenoble France.

- Holder of Certificate of Search (research) within the Laboratory (Architecture of earth (ground), Feed (Delivered on July 1st 1991 at School of Architecture of Grenoble France.)

- Individual member (limb in 2012) of The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB).

Holder of three patents in the field of the construction of building hard without coffering nor clamp without mortar of pose:

In 1994 two patents (n° 10230 and n° 10231) freed by the African Organization of the Intellectual Propriety.
In 2011 The third patent (n° 15802) freed by the African Organization of the Intellectual Propriety.
Whose Head Office is in Yaoundé Cameroon.

I AND PARTICIPATION IN DIVERSE MEETIG Two patents (n° 10230 and n° 1DISTINCTIONS 0231) freed in 1994:
a) From 08 till December 1997 : Participation in the 1st African lounge (show) of the Technological Invention of Dakar Senegal obtaining of the Price (Prize ) and the International Cup (Cutting ) of IFIA Federation International Association of Inventors’ Geneva Switzerland (Swiss)
b) From 17 till 18 December 1997 Participation in the first competition (help) one of creative creativities of Niamey: obtaining of the First Prize of the President of the Republic and the Golden medal INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PRICE WIPO for the Best Innovation
c) From 02 till 07 July 1998 participation in the 4th lounge (Show) of invention and innovation of Casablanca Morocco. Obtaining of the Cup of the Urban Community of Big Casablanca offered by Minister for Housing “Golden medal with Mention Distinction of Grand Prix HASSAN II. And a Golden medal offered by EAST-WEST-EURO –INTELLECT, a Bulgarian institution.
d) From 25 till 29 July participation in the invention and innovation of Casablanca Morocco.
Obtaining of “Golden medal INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PRICE WIPO Developing country and of the Diploma and Golden Medal with Mention Distinction of Grand Prix HASSAN II.

II DISTINCTIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN DIVERSE MEETIG The third patent (n° 15802) freed In 2011
a) GRAND PRIX IAEA 2013 European Association of the Inventors; Diploma and Golden medal of the International fair of the Inventions of Geneva from 10 till 14 April 2013
b) A prize-winner forum Africa 100 innovation for a sustainable development and a prize-winner of 21 pioneers having presented their technological innovations in Paris in December, 2013.

ABOU, Moussa

Researcher in Architecture of Earth (ground) and local Materials-Inventor

“LOCAL MATERIALS AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY”

Sep.6(Wed) 09:00-10:00

“LOCAL MATERIALS AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY”

ABOU method has potential for creating green jobs, conceptual performance, thermal, environmental and energy to achieve energy savings and comfort Hygrothermal in buildings. It contributes to the mitigation and adaptation to global phenomena of climate change through the synergy of bioclimatic habitat, thermal efficiency and energetic buildings and renewable energy. The interaction between the building and the environment should provide a new impetus to the construction sector, a mutation across multiple technical and technological developments; make tomorrow's challenges.

ABOU GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM is patented under the numbers 10230, 10231 and 15802 African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) Po.box 887 Yaoundé (Republic of Cameroun). Also at the 41st INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INVENTIONS OF GENEVA – 2013; THE METHOD HAS RECEIVED, PRIZE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF INVENTORS (AEI) Given by Mr. Joachim BADER, President, to Mr. ABOU Moussa, from Niger, for his construction process for buildings. Light, hydraulic, no cement mortar, no coffering, no clamps.

These technologies are in the actions of mitigation and adaptation in the context of a post-2012 regime regarding the building sector.

Career
1984-2004 Top Management of Thai Toshiba Group of Companies.
2004-2014 Chairperson of Thai Toshiba Group of Companies & Bangkadi Industrial Park
2014- Minister of Tourism and Sports

Award
2004 1 in 13 The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World Award
2004 Outstanding Business Woman Award from Thai Chamber of Commerce
2005 Priew Award
2007 Outstanding Business Woman Award from the Prime Minister on the occasion of International Women Day
2007 Thailand Top 100 HR 2007 Award from Human Resources Institute, Thammasat University
2012 Outstanding Woman Award from The National Council of Women of Thailand
2012 The Women Who Make a Difference Awards 2012 from Thailand Tatler Magazine
2012 Outstanding Business Woman 2012 Award from Thai Chamber of Commerce
2013 Right Livelihood Person 2012 Award from Right Livelihood Foundation

Past Positions

Social Activity (Business)
President of Thai-Japanese Association
Vice Chairman of Thai Chamber of Commerce
Board, KBANK
President of Self Sufficient Economy Committee, Thai Chamber of Commerce
Vice President of Energy Committee, Thai Chamber of Commerce
President of Ethic Club, Thai Chamber of Commerce
Committee, Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand
Committee,The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking
Committee, Business and Professional Woman’s Associations of Thailand, Bangkok
Committee, The Federation of Business and Professional Woman’s Associations of Thailand

Social Activity (Education)
Board of Trustees, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT)
Board of Director, College of Management Mahidol University (CMMU)
Chairman of the Governors Board, Harrow International School, Thailand

Social Activity (Other)
Head of Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World Committee, Thailand
Committee Member, Foundation for a Clean and Transparent Thailand (FACT)
Member of the Council of Trustees and Board of the Director, Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation (TDRI)
The Sub-Committee on Population and Plan, The National Economic and Social Development Board
Director, Vichaiyuth Hospital
Director, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Foundation
Director, Special Olympic of Thailand
Director, Books for Children Foundation
Board, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Director, Utokapat Foundation under Royal Patronage of H.M. The King

Other
Committee of the Sufficient Economy Judgement, Office of The Royal Development Projects Board
Working Committee, Art for All in Prisons
Honorary Advisor Committee, K-SME Venture Capital 2007
Evaluation Committee Panel, Baipo Pho Business Awards by SASIN since 2007
Judging Committee Member, “Bangkok Business Challenge” SASIN 2014

WATTANAVRANGKUL, Kobkarn

Minister of Tourism and Sports, Thailand

“Tourism for All”

Sep.6(Wed) 13:00-14:00

Toyo Ito

Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1965. In 1971, he established his own office Urban Robot, which was renamed Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects.

Awards and Prizes: Golden Lion for at the Venice Biennale, Royal Gold Medal from The Royal Institute of British Architects, The 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu, The Pritzker Architecture Prize, etc.

ITO, Toyo

Architects, Toyo Ito & Associates
(UIA Goldmedalist)

“SOUL OF ARCHITECTURE”

Sep.7(Thu) 9:00-10:00

“SOUL OF ARCHITECTURE”

Under the global economy, cities all over the world increase in scale and rapidly redevelop into high-rise dominant environment. However, each city’s specific locality and historicity tends to fade as they become increasingly monotonous.

Moreover, as the economic discrepancy leads to disparity in both working and living environment. Is it possible to put a stop to the disruptive tendency of cities and recover the happiness we once found among human beings?

It is therefore vital for us to recover the soul of architecture. I would like to take this opportunity in this lecture to consider how we can acquire the soul of architecture.